Vadodara: Hailing the Supreme Court’s decision, Rajpipla gay prince Manvendra Singh Gohil made a sensational statement that staffers of Lakshya Trust, which he had founded, had to face harassment from police. “I want to share an episode that we had encountered with the Vadodara police.Our workers had got arrested for the simple reason that they were distributing condoms. Our staffers were distributing condoms as mandated by Gujarat government. The state government itself had provided us the condoms and money to distribute them. But the police arrested our staff blaming them for spreading ‘homo-giri’,” he said.“The staffers were being treated as criminals even as they were carrying out a work which Gujarat government itself was supporting. Not only that, Vadodara police had forced sex with them and that too without condom,” he said, adding that the staffers could have got infected because the cops themselves could have been HIV positive.“Now, you tell us, who are criminals? Are we, who were trying to save lives of people by distributing condoms, criminals? Or the police which arrested our workers, had forced sex with them, without their consent and without using condoms, criminals? It was because of the harassment of police and misuse of section 377 that we had to move court,” he said, adding that the workers were often subjected to blackmailing and extortion.

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